The Sun, the Moon, and the Star
Eve Hewson takes on her biggest role, in the adaptation of the Man Booker Prize–winning novel The Luminaries
Elena Ferrante Does Not Take a Summer Holiday
Filming part three of the brilliant friendship between Lila and Elena gets underway in a few months
Dawn Porter
The filmmaker known for exposing racial injustice has a new documentary on John Lewis
2020: A Movie Odyssey
What can American audiences learn from Asian cinemas during this pandemic?
Shades of Black
The first major African-American filmmaker still has a lot to tell us
“That’s What She Said!” (And He, Too)
A brief, writers’-room oral history of The Office
Before Cable Was Cool
A new book tells the story of CNN, Ted Turner, and the birth of the 24-hour news cycle
Haifaa Al Mansour
The Saudi filmmaker gives audiences a picture of life in her secretive, ultra-conservative home country
Final Cut
Parisian cinephiles are in an uproar over the actions of an American real-estate investor
Freeze-Frame
Even during the lockdown, Hollywood remains a town where you need to look behind the scenes
The Light Side of the Moon
Space Force is a bit like The Office but in outer space. Best of all? Steve Carell returns to comedy
Martini, Anyone?
Christine Baranski on The Good Fight, her bathrobe-clad Sondheim tribute, and spending lockdown in a house full of children
Is Unorthodox Inauthentic?
A dissenting take on the popular Netflix mini-series, one among a growing genre of escape-from-Judaism stories
How to Build a Movie Star
Beanie Feldstein is irresistible as a high-schooler who leaps onto the masthead of a high-profile music magazine
The #uck of the Irish
The sex-soaked mini-series Normal People gets people horny for Ireland
Paris, When It Sizzles
The director of La La Land and Whiplash returns with his newest project: a love song to music, set in a French jazz club
The Gold Standard
Is 1962 secretly the greatest year ever for movies?
Movieland’s Most Threatening Cliff-Hanger
A pandemic has shut down the dream factory. Will it survive? As the weeks grind on, some fear it may not
The Pumping Station
Ryan Murphy’s new series is a seamy fantasy of postwar Hollywood—and the garage owner who serviced the stars
Catch-007?
In 1965, Joseph Heller was hired to adapt Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. For sheer absurdity, his script was no match for events
Read Any Good TV Lately?
Even when shows are in English, more and more viewers choose to watch with captioning. So, what’s the story?
Isobel Waller-Bridge
The musician talks about scoring the film Emma; her sister, Phoebe; and what kind of sounds suit a hot priest
